JayneWonders
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Flu numbers are down as we are masking, washing hands and staying home. Very simple. So are colds.Since April, I have observed a strange phenomenon here--the odd person actually still wearing a mask in grocery stores and banks! None of their employees wear masks any more. How typical is mask-wearing in Canada?
4 interesting facts about Washington state:
(1) Flu is now virtually unheard of. So conspiracy theorists claim that Flu is often misdiagnosed as Covid-19.
(2) People I know typically reject vaccination because they believe it alters DNA in a serious way. I know a geneticist who vehemently opposes this claim.
(3) No Washington residents have died from the vaccine.
(4) People here are constantly talking about "Covid fatigue" as a prime reason for the great drop-off in vaccinations in the past couple of months. Of course, we've had the Pfizer vaccine since early January.
Everyone other than antivaccers still wear masks in Ontario if within 6ft or in a building.
Ontario is definitely still heavily getting vaccinated. Covid fatigue exists of course but not impacting vaccination rates negatively. If anything, driving them up